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  1. 17th May 2009, 10:45 PM #1
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    G'day,

    I was at a club event this weekend and i noticed a Series 3 with a Largely looking winch on the front of it. i got a closer look & i noticed LandRover MKII moulded on the zinc casing. When i had seen the pipes leading from the winch to the gearbox i had removed the cover on the middle seatbox to discover it was a Haudraullic type winch. i thought this would of been a good setup.

    Is anyone able to tell me more about these units, its the first time ive seen a hydraulic type winch on a Landy.

    Pictures attached below.

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    Chris.










    also found a video of the winch in action on a series 2. fast foward to 7:22 munutes!
    this was on youtube Land Rover promotional videos!
    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJzz8aU3Ztw"]YouTube - Part 1 of 2 - Land Rover - All in a Day's Work[/ame]
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  2. 17th May 2009, 11:04 PM #2
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    The hydraulic was actually the first drum winch to be offered as an approved optional part on Land Rover. You will find them listed in the rear of Series 2 and early S2a workshop manuals from about 1963.

    There were a few in Oz but they were frightfully expensive in comparison to the S.U.E. and other PTO (shaft driven) drum winches, with the Thomas PTO winch about half the price of the hydraulic winch in SIII. They were quite a lot more common on UK market vehicles, particularly the 1 Ton models used by the various electricity boards.

    The Mk2 as you guess is the second version, the Mk 1 was only marked Land Rover.

    The hydraulic winch has the advantage of not breaking shear pins etc as they use a pressure relief for the same purpose.

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  3. 18th May 2009, 04:00 AM #3
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    very nice! first time i've seen one, only ever heard of them and seen the exploded diagrams in workshop manuals....

    so..... can we assume you're trying to purchase it?
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  4. 18th May 2009, 09:33 AM #4
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    Thumbs up

    thanks for the info, its a nice winch though. I dont think ill be buying it as it wasnt for sale. but was worth photographing and show pics on the Forum.

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